Meme: New Haskell programmers grapple with Monads while category theorists keep a whole cabinet of higher abstractions
miniapeur · x · 2026-10-23
A SpongeBob meme about the Haskell learning curve: beginners treasure Monads, while category theorists' cabinets hold Comonads, Profunctors, (infinity,1)-toposes, Operads, Fibrations, weighted limits and a whole wall of even higher abstractions — the deep end you struggle with is someone else's shallow water.
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